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Doomsday [2008] starring: Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, MyAnna Buring, Rhona Mitra directed by: Neil Marshall List Price: £19.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £15.01 (75%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5050582540321 Format: PAL Label: Universal Pictures UK Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Pictures UK Region Code: 2 Release Date: September 01, 2008 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures UK Sales Rank: 808 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Loud, violent, and proudly derivative, the post-apocalyptic action-thriller Doomsday is the latest from UK cult director Neil Marshall, who impressed horror fans with his previous efforts, Dog Soldiers and The Descent. Both pictures established Marshall as a director with a knack for reinventing well-worn genre pictures, but here, he seems more interested in stitching together favorite scenes and elements from established horror and science-fiction films. Escape from New York is the main source for Doomsday, though there are plenty of nods to The Road Warrior and its multitude of Italian-made carbon copies, as well as the zombie/plague subgenre; the lovely but impassive Rhona Mitra is the Snake Plissken-esque loner sent by police (represented by Bob Hoskins) to infiltrate Scotland, which has descended into anarchy following a viral outbreak. The disease has surfaced in London (now a walled city), and Mitra is dispatched to find a scientist who may possess a cure. Marshall's vision of Scotland in ruins brings together the punk/modern primitive costume design of George Miller's Mad Max trilogy with some eclectic homegrown elements (knights on horseback defending a gang leader's castle), and while these touches are novel, the picture as a whole should ring overly familiar to any viewer who's spent time in the exploitation trenches during the past 25 years. Younger and less discerning audience members will undoubtedly enjoy the plentiful violence and gore, as well as the unbridled performances of the supporting cast, especially stuntwoman/actress Lee-Ann Liebenberg as the heavily tattooed Viper. --Paul Gaita Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Mad Max PooNeil Marshall's movies have managed to be entertaining despite their derivative content, Doomsday however is neither original or good. Marshall obviously loved "Escape From New York" and "Mad Max 2" as a lad because he's decided to make a sloppy, spliced together montage of the two. The movie opens with a great clunkly lump of exposition in an attempt to sow up some of the enormous holes in the plot...its a horrible piece of narrative that serves as warning for what was to come. Both of the films on which this is based had a humorous element but the humour was pitch black and perfectly balanced..."Doomsday" suffers from the same problem as "Waterworld" in that you can never quite work out whether it is supposed to be ludicrous or not...rock ... Read More: Rating: - Rhona Mitra is great, but the film is a cinematic messRemember when we had no choice but to watch beefed-up, brainless brutes try to save the day in any ultra-violent, post-apocalyptic action thriller? Thank goodness those times have changed, and we can shout the mantra that hotness prevails even as the source of all that hotness goes about kicking the posterior of any man who dares get in her way. I don't know if Rhona Mitra could take out the likes of Milla Jovovich - but I do know that is one catfight I would pay lots of money to see. One thing I do know, however, is that Doomsday is all about Rhona Mitra. Without her, this movie crashes and burns. As others have pointed out, Doomsday is (to put it nicely) highly derivative of several earlier films; the weird thing is that most of those ... Read More: Rating:  - Not a masterpiece, but I like itA movie made of "frame" by a series of classic film. The theme of the virus killer (last examples 28 days, 28 weeks, etc..) mixed to Mad Max & similia, mixed with Escape of New York, mixed with Timeline (with the castle and "medioeval" knights) mixed with Aliens (troopers on APC) and so on. A good cast, some original idea (ie, the eye-camera ..)some "free and unuseful" violence scenes (ie the "rocked" scottish young cannibals) some stupid things (ie the "stored" "old" Bentley with OK tyres pressure and full battery, full operative after years of storage ....)If you search a serious, realistic, original movie change teathre. If you like "no-brain" (ie "not cerebral") action movie is a "decent" product. Rating:  - Excellent homage to great movies!If you liked Escape from New York, Mad Max, Gladiator, & The Warriors, along with Dog Soldiers & The Descent, then you'll love this. You will easily spot the copied characters, scenes & music, because Neil Marshall has obviously done this on purpose. Ignore the bad reviews. This film is excellent. Enjoy. Rating: - Escape from Mad Road rageAs much as I loved Dog Soldiers and The Descent, even though it wore it's influences on it's sleeve quite brazenly (Ahem...Alien) Doomsday, again uses the same trick of blending 80's genre movies, into a retro modern homage-a-thon of set pieces, but unfortunately the resulting film just failed to deliver what it set out to be, maybe we're all too cult movie savvy these days ? who knows? The premise isn't original, I won't go into it here, just read the synopsis above... Take a dash of Escape from New York, Mad Max, 28 days later, Highlander, put into a blender, and hey presto! Doomsday! I'm giving this movie 3 stars, because like Marshall, I have fond memories of cult 80's movies and have put in many many man ( and boy hours) ... Read More: |
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